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1/proc/sys/net/ipv4/* Variables:
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3ip_forward - BOOLEAN
4 0 - disabled (default)
e18f5feb 5 not 0 - enabled
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6
7 Forward Packets between interfaces.
8
9 This variable is special, its change resets all configuration
10 parameters to their default state (RFC1122 for hosts, RFC1812
11 for routers)
12
13ip_default_ttl - INTEGER
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14 Default value of TTL field (Time To Live) for outgoing (but not
15 forwarded) IP packets. Should be between 1 and 255 inclusive.
16 Default: 64 (as recommended by RFC1700)
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17
18ip_no_pmtu_disc - BOOLEAN
19 Disable Path MTU Discovery.
20 default FALSE
21
22min_pmtu - INTEGER
20db93c3 23 default 552 - minimum discovered Path MTU
1da177e4 24
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25route/max_size - INTEGER
26 Maximum number of routes allowed in the kernel. Increase
27 this when using large numbers of interfaces and/or routes.
28
29neigh/default/gc_thresh3 - INTEGER
30 Maximum number of neighbor entries allowed. Increase this
31 when using large numbers of interfaces and when communicating
32 with large numbers of directly-connected peers.
cc868028 33 Default: 1024
cbaf087a 34
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35neigh/default/unres_qlen_bytes - INTEGER
36 The maximum number of bytes which may be used by packets
37 queued for each unresolved address by other network layers.
38 (added in linux 3.3)
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39 Seting negative value is meaningless and will retrun error.
40 Default: 65536 Bytes(64KB)
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42neigh/default/unres_qlen - INTEGER
43 The maximum number of packets which may be queued for each
44 unresolved address by other network layers.
45 (deprecated in linux 3.3) : use unres_qlen_bytes instead.
cc868028 46 Prior to linux 3.3, the default value is 3 which may cause
5d248c49 47 unexpected packet loss. The current default value is calculated
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48 according to default value of unres_qlen_bytes and true size of
49 packet.
50 Default: 31
8b5c171b 51
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52mtu_expires - INTEGER
53 Time, in seconds, that cached PMTU information is kept.
54
55min_adv_mss - INTEGER
56 The advertised MSS depends on the first hop route MTU, but will
57 never be lower than this setting.
58
59IP Fragmentation:
60
61ipfrag_high_thresh - INTEGER
e18f5feb 62 Maximum memory used to reassemble IP fragments. When
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63 ipfrag_high_thresh bytes of memory is allocated for this purpose,
64 the fragment handler will toss packets until ipfrag_low_thresh
65 is reached.
e18f5feb 66
1da177e4 67ipfrag_low_thresh - INTEGER
e18f5feb 68 See ipfrag_high_thresh
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69
70ipfrag_time - INTEGER
e18f5feb 71 Time in seconds to keep an IP fragment in memory.
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72
73ipfrag_secret_interval - INTEGER
e18f5feb 74 Regeneration interval (in seconds) of the hash secret (or lifetime
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75 for the hash secret) for IP fragments.
76 Default: 600
77
89cee8b1 78ipfrag_max_dist - INTEGER
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79 ipfrag_max_dist is a non-negative integer value which defines the
80 maximum "disorder" which is allowed among fragments which share a
81 common IP source address. Note that reordering of packets is
82 not unusual, but if a large number of fragments arrive from a source
83 IP address while a particular fragment queue remains incomplete, it
84 probably indicates that one or more fragments belonging to that queue
85 have been lost. When ipfrag_max_dist is positive, an additional check
86 is done on fragments before they are added to a reassembly queue - if
87 ipfrag_max_dist (or more) fragments have arrived from a particular IP
88 address between additions to any IP fragment queue using that source
89 address, it's presumed that one or more fragments in the queue are
90 lost. The existing fragment queue will be dropped, and a new one
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91 started. An ipfrag_max_dist value of zero disables this check.
92
93 Using a very small value, e.g. 1 or 2, for ipfrag_max_dist can
94 result in unnecessarily dropping fragment queues when normal
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95 reordering of packets occurs, which could lead to poor application
96 performance. Using a very large value, e.g. 50000, increases the
97 likelihood of incorrectly reassembling IP fragments that originate
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98 from different IP datagrams, which could result in data corruption.
99 Default: 64
100
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101INET peer storage:
102
103inet_peer_threshold - INTEGER
e18f5feb 104 The approximate size of the storage. Starting from this threshold
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105 entries will be thrown aggressively. This threshold also determines
106 entries' time-to-live and time intervals between garbage collection
107 passes. More entries, less time-to-live, less GC interval.
108
109inet_peer_minttl - INTEGER
110 Minimum time-to-live of entries. Should be enough to cover fragment
111 time-to-live on the reassembling side. This minimum time-to-live is
112 guaranteed if the pool size is less than inet_peer_threshold.
77a538d5 113 Measured in seconds.
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115inet_peer_maxttl - INTEGER
116 Maximum time-to-live of entries. Unused entries will expire after
117 this period of time if there is no memory pressure on the pool (i.e.
118 when the number of entries in the pool is very small).
77a538d5 119 Measured in seconds.
1da177e4 120
e18f5feb 121TCP variables:
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123somaxconn - INTEGER
124 Limit of socket listen() backlog, known in userspace as SOMAXCONN.
125 Defaults to 128. See also tcp_max_syn_backlog for additional tuning
126 for TCP sockets.
127
9772efb9 128tcp_abc - INTEGER
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129 Controls Appropriate Byte Count (ABC) defined in RFC3465.
130 ABC is a way of increasing congestion window (cwnd) more slowly
131 in response to partial acknowledgments.
132 Possible values are:
133 0 increase cwnd once per acknowledgment (no ABC)
134 1 increase cwnd once per acknowledgment of full sized segment
135 2 allow increase cwnd by two if acknowledgment is
136 of two segments to compensate for delayed acknowledgments.
137 Default: 0 (off)
9772efb9 138
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139tcp_abort_on_overflow - BOOLEAN
140 If listening service is too slow to accept new connections,
141 reset them. Default state is FALSE. It means that if overflow
142 occurred due to a burst, connection will recover. Enable this
143 option _only_ if you are really sure that listening daemon
144 cannot be tuned to accept connections faster. Enabling this
145 option can harm clients of your server.
1da177e4 146
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147tcp_adv_win_scale - INTEGER
148 Count buffering overhead as bytes/2^tcp_adv_win_scale
149 (if tcp_adv_win_scale > 0) or bytes-bytes/2^(-tcp_adv_win_scale),
150 if it is <= 0.
0147fc05 151 Possible values are [-31, 31], inclusive.
b49960a0 152 Default: 1
1da177e4 153
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154tcp_allowed_congestion_control - STRING
155 Show/set the congestion control choices available to non-privileged
156 processes. The list is a subset of those listed in
157 tcp_available_congestion_control.
158 Default is "reno" and the default setting (tcp_congestion_control).
1da177e4 159
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160tcp_app_win - INTEGER
161 Reserve max(window/2^tcp_app_win, mss) of window for application
162 buffer. Value 0 is special, it means that nothing is reserved.
163 Default: 31
1da177e4 164
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165tcp_available_congestion_control - STRING
166 Shows the available congestion control choices that are registered.
167 More congestion control algorithms may be available as modules,
168 but not loaded.
1da177e4 169
71599cd1 170tcp_base_mss - INTEGER
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171 The initial value of search_low to be used by the packetization layer
172 Path MTU discovery (MTU probing). If MTU probing is enabled,
173 this is the initial MSS used by the connection.
71599cd1 174
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175tcp_congestion_control - STRING
176 Set the congestion control algorithm to be used for new
177 connections. The algorithm "reno" is always available, but
178 additional choices may be available based on kernel configuration.
179 Default is set as part of kernel configuration.
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180 For passive connections, the listener congestion control choice
181 is inherited.
182 [see setsockopt(listenfd, SOL_TCP, TCP_CONGESTION, "name" ...) ]
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184tcp_cookie_size - INTEGER
185 Default size of TCP Cookie Transactions (TCPCT) option, that may be
186 overridden on a per socket basis by the TCPCT socket option.
187 Values greater than the maximum (16) are interpreted as the maximum.
188 Values greater than zero and less than the minimum (8) are interpreted
189 as the minimum. Odd values are interpreted as the next even value.
190 Default: 0 (off).
191
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192tcp_dsack - BOOLEAN
193 Allows TCP to send "duplicate" SACKs.
1da177e4 194
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195tcp_early_retrans - INTEGER
196 Enable Early Retransmit (ER), per RFC 5827. ER lowers the threshold
197 for triggering fast retransmit when the amount of outstanding data is
198 small and when no previously unsent data can be transmitted (such
199 that limited transmit could be used).
200 Possible values:
201 0 disables ER
202 1 enables ER
203 2 enables ER but delays fast recovery and fast retransmit
204 by a fourth of RTT. This mitigates connection falsely
205 recovers when network has a small degree of reordering
206 (less than 3 packets).
207 Default: 2
208
34a6ef38 209tcp_ecn - INTEGER
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210 Control use of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) by TCP.
211 ECN is used only when both ends of the TCP connection indicate
212 support for it. This feature is useful in avoiding losses due
213 to congestion by allowing supporting routers to signal
214 congestion before having to drop packets.
255cac91 215 Possible values are:
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216 0 Disable ECN. Neither initiate nor accept ECN.
217 1 Always request ECN on outgoing connection attempts.
218 2 Enable ECN when requested by incomming connections
219 but do not request ECN on outgoing connections.
255cac91 220 Default: 2
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222tcp_fack - BOOLEAN
223 Enable FACK congestion avoidance and fast retransmission.
224 The value is not used, if tcp_sack is not enabled.
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226tcp_fin_timeout - INTEGER
227 Time to hold socket in state FIN-WAIT-2, if it was closed
228 by our side. Peer can be broken and never close its side,
229 or even died unexpectedly. Default value is 60sec.
230 Usual value used in 2.2 was 180 seconds, you may restore
231 it, but remember that if your machine is even underloaded WEB server,
232 you risk to overflow memory with kilotons of dead sockets,
233 FIN-WAIT-2 sockets are less dangerous than FIN-WAIT-1,
234 because they eat maximum 1.5K of memory, but they tend
235 to live longer. Cf. tcp_max_orphans.
236
89808060 237tcp_frto - INTEGER
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238 Enables Forward RTO-Recovery (F-RTO) defined in RFC4138.
239 F-RTO is an enhanced recovery algorithm for TCP retransmission
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240 timeouts. It is particularly beneficial in wireless environments
241 where packet loss is typically due to random radio interference
564262c1 242 rather than intermediate router congestion. F-RTO is sender-side
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243 only modification. Therefore it does not require any support from
244 the peer.
245
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246 If set to 1, basic version is enabled. 2 enables SACK enhanced
247 F-RTO if flow uses SACK. The basic version can be used also when
564262c1 248 SACK is in use though scenario(s) with it exists where F-RTO
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249 interacts badly with the packet counting of the SACK enabled TCP
250 flow.
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252tcp_frto_response - INTEGER
253 When F-RTO has detected that a TCP retransmission timeout was
254 spurious (i.e, the timeout would have been avoided had TCP set a
255 longer retransmission timeout), TCP has several options what to do
256 next. Possible values are:
257 0 Rate halving based; a smooth and conservative response,
258 results in halved cwnd and ssthresh after one RTT
259 1 Very conservative response; not recommended because even
260 though being valid, it interacts poorly with the rest of
261 Linux TCP, halves cwnd and ssthresh immediately
262 2 Aggressive response; undoes congestion control measures
263 that are now known to be unnecessary (ignoring the
264 possibility of a lost retransmission that would require
265 TCP to be more cautious), cwnd and ssthresh are restored
266 to the values prior timeout
267 Default: 0 (rate halving based)
268
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269tcp_keepalive_time - INTEGER
270 How often TCP sends out keepalive messages when keepalive is enabled.
271 Default: 2hours.
1da177e4 272
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273tcp_keepalive_probes - INTEGER
274 How many keepalive probes TCP sends out, until it decides that the
275 connection is broken. Default value: 9.
276
277tcp_keepalive_intvl - INTEGER
278 How frequently the probes are send out. Multiplied by
279 tcp_keepalive_probes it is time to kill not responding connection,
280 after probes started. Default value: 75sec i.e. connection
281 will be aborted after ~11 minutes of retries.
282
283tcp_low_latency - BOOLEAN
284 If set, the TCP stack makes decisions that prefer lower
285 latency as opposed to higher throughput. By default, this
286 option is not set meaning that higher throughput is preferred.
287 An example of an application where this default should be
288 changed would be a Beowulf compute cluster.
289 Default: 0
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291tcp_max_orphans - INTEGER
292 Maximal number of TCP sockets not attached to any user file handle,
293 held by system. If this number is exceeded orphaned connections are
294 reset immediately and warning is printed. This limit exists
295 only to prevent simple DoS attacks, you _must_ not rely on this
296 or lower the limit artificially, but rather increase it
297 (probably, after increasing installed memory),
298 if network conditions require more than default value,
299 and tune network services to linger and kill such states
300 more aggressively. Let me to remind again: each orphan eats
301 up to ~64K of unswappable memory.
302
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303tcp_max_ssthresh - INTEGER
304 Limited Slow-Start for TCP with large congestion windows (cwnd) defined in
305 RFC3742. Limited slow-start is a mechanism to limit growth of the cwnd
306 on the region where cwnd is larger than tcp_max_ssthresh. TCP increases cwnd
307 by at most tcp_max_ssthresh segments, and by at least tcp_max_ssthresh/2
308 segments per RTT when the cwnd is above tcp_max_ssthresh.
309 If TCP connection increased cwnd to thousands (or tens of thousands) segments,
310 and thousands of packets were being dropped during slow-start, you can set
311 tcp_max_ssthresh to improve performance for new TCP connection.
312 Default: 0 (off)
313
1da177e4 314tcp_max_syn_backlog - INTEGER
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315 Maximal number of remembered connection requests, which have not
316 received an acknowledgment from connecting client.
317 The minimal value is 128 for low memory machines, and it will
318 increase in proportion to the memory of machine.
319 If server suffers from overload, try increasing this number.
1da177e4 320
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321tcp_max_tw_buckets - INTEGER
322 Maximal number of timewait sockets held by system simultaneously.
323 If this number is exceeded time-wait socket is immediately destroyed
324 and warning is printed. This limit exists only to prevent
325 simple DoS attacks, you _must_ not lower the limit artificially,
326 but rather increase it (probably, after increasing installed memory),
327 if network conditions require more than default value.
1da177e4 328
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329tcp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
330 min: below this number of pages TCP is not bothered about its
331 memory appetite.
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333 pressure: when amount of memory allocated by TCP exceeds this number
334 of pages, TCP moderates its memory consumption and enters memory
335 pressure mode, which is exited when memory consumption falls
336 under "min".
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ef56e622 338 max: number of pages allowed for queueing by all TCP sockets.
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340 Defaults are calculated at boot time from amount of available
341 memory.
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71599cd1 343tcp_moderate_rcvbuf - BOOLEAN
4edc2f34 344 If set, TCP performs receive buffer auto-tuning, attempting to
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345 automatically size the buffer (no greater than tcp_rmem[2]) to
346 match the size required by the path for full throughput. Enabled by
347 default.
348
349tcp_mtu_probing - INTEGER
350 Controls TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU Discovery. Takes three
351 values:
352 0 - Disabled
353 1 - Disabled by default, enabled when an ICMP black hole detected
354 2 - Always enabled, use initial MSS of tcp_base_mss.
355
356tcp_no_metrics_save - BOOLEAN
357 By default, TCP saves various connection metrics in the route cache
358 when the connection closes, so that connections established in the
359 near future can use these to set initial conditions. Usually, this
360 increases overall performance, but may sometimes cause performance
0f035b8e 361 degradation. If set, TCP will not cache metrics on closing
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362 connections.
363
ef56e622 364tcp_orphan_retries - INTEGER
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365 This value influences the timeout of a locally closed TCP connection,
366 when RTO retransmissions remain unacknowledged.
367 See tcp_retries2 for more details.
368
06b8fc5d 369 The default value is 8.
5d789229 370 If your machine is a loaded WEB server,
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371 you should think about lowering this value, such sockets
372 may consume significant resources. Cf. tcp_max_orphans.
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374tcp_reordering - INTEGER
375 Maximal reordering of packets in a TCP stream.
e18f5feb 376 Default: 3
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378tcp_retrans_collapse - BOOLEAN
379 Bug-to-bug compatibility with some broken printers.
380 On retransmit try to send bigger packets to work around bugs in
381 certain TCP stacks.
382
ef56e622 383tcp_retries1 - INTEGER
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384 This value influences the time, after which TCP decides, that
385 something is wrong due to unacknowledged RTO retransmissions,
386 and reports this suspicion to the network layer.
387 See tcp_retries2 for more details.
388
389 RFC 1122 recommends at least 3 retransmissions, which is the
390 default.
1da177e4 391
ef56e622 392tcp_retries2 - INTEGER
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393 This value influences the timeout of an alive TCP connection,
394 when RTO retransmissions remain unacknowledged.
395 Given a value of N, a hypothetical TCP connection following
396 exponential backoff with an initial RTO of TCP_RTO_MIN would
397 retransmit N times before killing the connection at the (N+1)th RTO.
398
399 The default value of 15 yields a hypothetical timeout of 924.6
400 seconds and is a lower bound for the effective timeout.
401 TCP will effectively time out at the first RTO which exceeds the
402 hypothetical timeout.
403
404 RFC 1122 recommends at least 100 seconds for the timeout,
405 which corresponds to a value of at least 8.
1da177e4 406
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407tcp_rfc1337 - BOOLEAN
408 If set, the TCP stack behaves conforming to RFC1337. If unset,
409 we are not conforming to RFC, but prevent TCP TIME_WAIT
410 assassination.
411 Default: 0
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413tcp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
414 min: Minimal size of receive buffer used by TCP sockets.
415 It is guaranteed to each TCP socket, even under moderate memory
416 pressure.
6539fefd 417 Default: 1 page
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53025f5e 419 default: initial size of receive buffer used by TCP sockets.
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420 This value overrides net.core.rmem_default used by other protocols.
421 Default: 87380 bytes. This value results in window of 65535 with
422 default setting of tcp_adv_win_scale and tcp_app_win:0 and a bit
423 less for default tcp_app_win. See below about these variables.
424
425 max: maximal size of receive buffer allowed for automatically
426 selected receiver buffers for TCP socket. This value does not override
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427 net.core.rmem_max. Calling setsockopt() with SO_RCVBUF disables
428 automatic tuning of that socket's receive buffer size, in which
429 case this value is ignored.
b49960a0 430 Default: between 87380B and 6MB, depending on RAM size.
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432tcp_sack - BOOLEAN
433 Enable select acknowledgments (SACKS).
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435tcp_slow_start_after_idle - BOOLEAN
436 If set, provide RFC2861 behavior and time out the congestion
437 window after an idle period. An idle period is defined at
438 the current RTO. If unset, the congestion window will not
439 be timed out after an idle period.
440 Default: 1
1da177e4 441
ef56e622 442tcp_stdurg - BOOLEAN
4edc2f34 443 Use the Host requirements interpretation of the TCP urgent pointer field.
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444 Most hosts use the older BSD interpretation, so if you turn this on
445 Linux might not communicate correctly with them.
446 Default: FALSE
1da177e4 447
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448tcp_synack_retries - INTEGER
449 Number of times SYNACKs for a passive TCP connection attempt will
450 be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 255. Default value
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451 is 5, which corresponds to 31seconds till the last retransmission
452 with the current initial RTO of 1second. With this the final timeout
453 for a passive TCP connection will happen after 63seconds.
1da177e4 454
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455tcp_syncookies - BOOLEAN
456 Only valid when the kernel was compiled with CONFIG_SYNCOOKIES
457 Send out syncookies when the syn backlog queue of a socket
4edc2f34 458 overflows. This is to prevent against the common 'SYN flood attack'
ef56e622 459 Default: FALSE
1da177e4 460
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461 Note, that syncookies is fallback facility.
462 It MUST NOT be used to help highly loaded servers to stand
4edc2f34 463 against legal connection rate. If you see SYN flood warnings
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464 in your logs, but investigation shows that they occur
465 because of overload with legal connections, you should tune
466 another parameters until this warning disappear.
467 See: tcp_max_syn_backlog, tcp_synack_retries, tcp_abort_on_overflow.
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469 syncookies seriously violate TCP protocol, do not allow
470 to use TCP extensions, can result in serious degradation
471 of some services (f.e. SMTP relaying), visible not by you,
472 but your clients and relays, contacting you. While you see
4edc2f34 473 SYN flood warnings in logs not being really flooded, your server
ef56e622 474 is seriously misconfigured.
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476tcp_fastopen - INTEGER
477 Enable TCP Fast Open feature (draft-ietf-tcpm-fastopen) to send data
478 in the opening SYN packet. To use this feature, the client application
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479 must use sendmsg() or sendto() with MSG_FASTOPEN flag rather than
480 connect() to perform a TCP handshake automatically.
481
482 The values (bitmap) are
483 1: Enables sending data in the opening SYN on the client.
484 2: Enables TCP Fast Open on the server side, i.e., allowing data in
485 a SYN packet to be accepted and passed to the application before
486 3-way hand shake finishes.
487 4: Send data in the opening SYN regardless of cookie availability and
488 without a cookie option.
489 0x100: Accept SYN data w/o validating the cookie.
490 0x200: Accept data-in-SYN w/o any cookie option present.
491 0x400/0x800: Enable Fast Open on all listeners regardless of the
492 TCP_FASTOPEN socket option. The two different flags designate two
493 different ways of setting max_qlen without the TCP_FASTOPEN socket
494 option.
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495
496 Default: 0
497
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498 Note that the client & server side Fast Open flags (1 and 2
499 respectively) must be also enabled before the rest of flags can take
500 effect.
501
502 See include/net/tcp.h and the code for more details.
503
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504tcp_syn_retries - INTEGER
505 Number of times initial SYNs for an active TCP connection attempt
506 will be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 255. Default value
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507 is 6, which corresponds to 63seconds till the last restransmission
508 with the current initial RTO of 1second. With this the final timeout
509 for an active TCP connection attempt will happen after 127seconds.
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511tcp_timestamps - BOOLEAN
512 Enable timestamps as defined in RFC1323.
1da177e4 513
1da177e4 514tcp_tso_win_divisor - INTEGER
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515 This allows control over what percentage of the congestion window
516 can be consumed by a single TSO frame.
517 The setting of this parameter is a choice between burstiness and
518 building larger TSO frames.
519 Default: 3
1da177e4 520
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521tcp_tw_recycle - BOOLEAN
522 Enable fast recycling TIME-WAIT sockets. Default value is 0.
523 It should not be changed without advice/request of technical
524 experts.
1da177e4 525
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526tcp_tw_reuse - BOOLEAN
527 Allow to reuse TIME-WAIT sockets for new connections when it is
528 safe from protocol viewpoint. Default value is 0.
529 It should not be changed without advice/request of technical
530 experts.
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532tcp_window_scaling - BOOLEAN
533 Enable window scaling as defined in RFC1323.
3ff825b2 534
ef56e622 535tcp_wmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
53025f5e 536 min: Amount of memory reserved for send buffers for TCP sockets.
ef56e622 537 Each TCP socket has rights to use it due to fact of its birth.
6539fefd 538 Default: 1 page
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540 default: initial size of send buffer used by TCP sockets. This
541 value overrides net.core.wmem_default used by other protocols.
542 It is usually lower than net.core.wmem_default.
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543 Default: 16K
544
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545 max: Maximal amount of memory allowed for automatically tuned
546 send buffers for TCP sockets. This value does not override
547 net.core.wmem_max. Calling setsockopt() with SO_SNDBUF disables
548 automatic tuning of that socket's send buffer size, in which case
549 this value is ignored.
550 Default: between 64K and 4MB, depending on RAM size.
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552tcp_workaround_signed_windows - BOOLEAN
553 If set, assume no receipt of a window scaling option means the
554 remote TCP is broken and treats the window as a signed quantity.
555 If unset, assume the remote TCP is not broken even if we do
556 not receive a window scaling option from them.
557 Default: 0
558
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560 Lower limit, in bytes, of the size of socket reads that will be
561 offloaded to a DMA copy engine, if one is present in the system
562 and CONFIG_NET_DMA is enabled.
563 Default: 4096
564
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566 Enable dynamic triggering of linear timeouts for thin streams.
567 If set, a check is performed upon retransmission by timeout to
568 determine if the stream is thin (less than 4 packets in flight).
569 As long as the stream is found to be thin, up to 6 linear
570 timeouts may be performed before exponential backoff mode is
571 initiated. This improves retransmission latency for
572 non-aggressive thin streams, often found to be time-dependent.
573 For more information on thin streams, see
574 Documentation/networking/tcp-thin.txt
575 Default: 0
576
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578 Enable dynamic triggering of retransmissions after one dupACK
579 for thin streams. If set, a check is performed upon reception
580 of a dupACK to determine if the stream is thin (less than 4
581 packets in flight). As long as the stream is found to be thin,
582 data is retransmitted on the first received dupACK. This
583 improves retransmission latency for non-aggressive thin
584 streams, often found to be time-dependent.
585 For more information on thin streams, see
586 Documentation/networking/tcp-thin.txt
587 Default: 0
588
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590 Controls TCP Small Queue limit per tcp socket.
591 TCP bulk sender tends to increase packets in flight until it
592 gets losses notifications. With SNDBUF autotuning, this can
593 result in a large amount of packets queued in qdisc/device
594 on the local machine, hurting latency of other flows, for
595 typical pfifo_fast qdiscs.
596 tcp_limit_output_bytes limits the number of bytes on qdisc
597 or device to reduce artificial RTT/cwnd and reduce bufferbloat.
598 Note: For GSO/TSO enabled flows, we try to have at least two
599 packets in flight. Reducing tcp_limit_output_bytes might also
600 reduce the size of individual GSO packet (64KB being the max)
601 Default: 131072
602
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604 Limits number of Challenge ACK sent per second, as recommended
605 in RFC 5961 (Improving TCP's Robustness to Blind In-Window Attacks)
606 Default: 100
607
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609
610udp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
611 Number of pages allowed for queueing by all UDP sockets.
612
613 min: Below this number of pages UDP is not bothered about its
614 memory appetite. When amount of memory allocated by UDP exceeds
615 this number, UDP starts to moderate memory usage.
616
617 pressure: This value was introduced to follow format of tcp_mem.
618
619 max: Number of pages allowed for queueing by all UDP sockets.
620
621 Default is calculated at boot time from amount of available memory.
622
623udp_rmem_min - INTEGER
624 Minimal size of receive buffer used by UDP sockets in moderation.
625 Each UDP socket is able to use the size for receiving data, even if
626 total pages of UDP sockets exceed udp_mem pressure. The unit is byte.
6539fefd 627 Default: 1 page
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629udp_wmem_min - INTEGER
630 Minimal size of send buffer used by UDP sockets in moderation.
631 Each UDP socket is able to use the size for sending data, even if
632 total pages of UDP sockets exceed udp_mem pressure. The unit is byte.
6539fefd 633 Default: 1 page
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635CIPSOv4 Variables:
636
637cipso_cache_enable - BOOLEAN
638 If set, enable additions to and lookups from the CIPSO label mapping
639 cache. If unset, additions are ignored and lookups always result in a
640 miss. However, regardless of the setting the cache is still
641 invalidated when required when means you can safely toggle this on and
642 off and the cache will always be "safe".
643 Default: 1
644
645cipso_cache_bucket_size - INTEGER
646 The CIPSO label cache consists of a fixed size hash table with each
647 hash bucket containing a number of cache entries. This variable limits
648 the number of entries in each hash bucket; the larger the value the
649 more CIPSO label mappings that can be cached. When the number of
650 entries in a given hash bucket reaches this limit adding new entries
651 causes the oldest entry in the bucket to be removed to make room.
652 Default: 10
653
654cipso_rbm_optfmt - BOOLEAN
655 Enable the "Optimized Tag 1 Format" as defined in section 3.4.2.6 of
656 the CIPSO draft specification (see Documentation/netlabel for details).
657 This means that when set the CIPSO tag will be padded with empty
658 categories in order to make the packet data 32-bit aligned.
659 Default: 0
660
661cipso_rbm_structvalid - BOOLEAN
662 If set, do a very strict check of the CIPSO option when
663 ip_options_compile() is called. If unset, relax the checks done during
664 ip_options_compile(). Either way is "safe" as errors are caught else
665 where in the CIPSO processing code but setting this to 0 (False) should
666 result in less work (i.e. it should be faster) but could cause problems
667 with other implementations that require strict checking.
668 Default: 0
669
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671
672ip_local_port_range - 2 INTEGERS
673 Defines the local port range that is used by TCP and UDP to
e18f5feb 674 choose the local port. The first number is the first, the
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675 second the last local port number. The default values are
676 32768 and 61000 respectively.
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678ip_local_reserved_ports - list of comma separated ranges
679 Specify the ports which are reserved for known third-party
680 applications. These ports will not be used by automatic port
681 assignments (e.g. when calling connect() or bind() with port
682 number 0). Explicit port allocation behavior is unchanged.
683
684 The format used for both input and output is a comma separated
685 list of ranges (e.g. "1,2-4,10-10" for ports 1, 2, 3, 4 and
686 10). Writing to the file will clear all previously reserved
687 ports and update the current list with the one given in the
688 input.
689
690 Note that ip_local_port_range and ip_local_reserved_ports
691 settings are independent and both are considered by the kernel
692 when determining which ports are available for automatic port
693 assignments.
694
695 You can reserve ports which are not in the current
696 ip_local_port_range, e.g.:
697
698 $ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
699 32000 61000
700 $ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_reserved_ports
701 8080,9148
702
703 although this is redundant. However such a setting is useful
704 if later the port range is changed to a value that will
705 include the reserved ports.
706
707 Default: Empty
708
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709ip_nonlocal_bind - BOOLEAN
710 If set, allows processes to bind() to non-local IP addresses,
711 which can be quite useful - but may break some applications.
712 Default: 0
713
714ip_dynaddr - BOOLEAN
715 If set non-zero, enables support for dynamic addresses.
716 If set to a non-zero value larger than 1, a kernel log
717 message will be printed when dynamic address rewriting
718 occurs.
719 Default: 0
720
721icmp_echo_ignore_all - BOOLEAN
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723 requests sent to it.
724 Default: 0
725
1da177e4 726icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts - BOOLEAN
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728 TIMESTAMP requests sent to it via broadcast/multicast.
729 Default: 1
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731icmp_ratelimit - INTEGER
732 Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMP packets whose type matches
733 icmp_ratemask (see below) to specific targets.
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734 0 to disable any limiting,
735 otherwise the minimal space between responses in milliseconds.
736 Default: 1000
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738icmp_ratemask - INTEGER
739 Mask made of ICMP types for which rates are being limited.
740 Significant bits: IHGFEDCBA9876543210
741 Default mask: 0000001100000011000 (6168)
742
743 Bit definitions (see include/linux/icmp.h):
744 0 Echo Reply
745 3 Destination Unreachable *
746 4 Source Quench *
747 5 Redirect
748 8 Echo Request
749 B Time Exceeded *
750 C Parameter Problem *
751 D Timestamp Request
752 E Timestamp Reply
753 F Info Request
754 G Info Reply
755 H Address Mask Request
756 I Address Mask Reply
757
758 * These are rate limited by default (see default mask above)
759
760icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses - BOOLEAN
761 Some routers violate RFC1122 by sending bogus responses to broadcast
762 frames. Such violations are normally logged via a kernel warning.
763 If this is set to TRUE, the kernel will not give such warnings, which
764 will avoid log file clutter.
765 Default: FALSE
766
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768
769 If zero, icmp error messages are sent with the primary address of
770 the exiting interface.
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772 If non-zero, the message will be sent with the primary address of
773 the interface that received the packet that caused the icmp error.
774 This is the behaviour network many administrators will expect from
775 a router. And it can make debugging complicated network layouts
e18f5feb 776 much easier.
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778 Note that if no primary address exists for the interface selected,
779 then the primary address of the first non-loopback interface that
d6bc8ac9 780 has one will be used regardless of this setting.
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781
782 Default: 0
783
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785 Change the maximum number of multicast groups we can subscribe to.
786 Default: 20
787
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788 Theoretical maximum value is bounded by having to send a membership
789 report in a single datagram (i.e. the report can't span multiple
790 datagrams, or risk confusing the switch and leaving groups you don't
791 intend to).
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794 report entries you can fit into a single datagram of 65535 bytes.
795
796 M = 65536-sizeof (ip header)/(sizeof(Group record))
797
798 Group records are variable length, with a minimum of 12 bytes.
799 So net.ipv4.igmp_max_memberships should not be set higher than:
800
801 (65536-24) / 12 = 5459
802
803 The value 5459 assumes no IP header options, so in practice
804 this number may be lower.
805
806 conf/interface/* changes special settings per interface (where
807 "interface" is the name of your network interface)
808
809 conf/all/* is special, changes the settings for all interfaces
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811log_martians - BOOLEAN
812 Log packets with impossible addresses to kernel log.
813 log_martians for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
814 conf/{all,interface}/log_martians is set to TRUE,
815 it will be disabled otherwise
816
817accept_redirects - BOOLEAN
818 Accept ICMP redirect messages.
819 accept_redirects for the interface will be enabled if:
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821 forwarding for the interface is enabled
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823 - at least one of conf/{all,interface}/accept_redirects is TRUE in the
824 case forwarding for the interface is disabled
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825 accept_redirects for the interface will be disabled otherwise
826 default TRUE (host)
827 FALSE (router)
828
829forwarding - BOOLEAN
830 Enable IP forwarding on this interface.
831
832mc_forwarding - BOOLEAN
833 Do multicast routing. The kernel needs to be compiled with CONFIG_MROUTE
834 and a multicast routing daemon is required.
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835 conf/all/mc_forwarding must also be set to TRUE to enable multicast
836 routing for the interface
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838medium_id - INTEGER
839 Integer value used to differentiate the devices by the medium they
840 are attached to. Two devices can have different id values when
841 the broadcast packets are received only on one of them.
842 The default value 0 means that the device is the only interface
843 to its medium, value of -1 means that medium is not known.
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845 Currently, it is used to change the proxy_arp behavior:
846 the proxy_arp feature is enabled for packets forwarded between
847 two devices attached to different media.
848
849proxy_arp - BOOLEAN
850 Do proxy arp.
851 proxy_arp for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
852 conf/{all,interface}/proxy_arp is set to TRUE,
853 it will be disabled otherwise
854
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855proxy_arp_pvlan - BOOLEAN
856 Private VLAN proxy arp.
857 Basically allow proxy arp replies back to the same interface
858 (from which the ARP request/solicitation was received).
859
860 This is done to support (ethernet) switch features, like RFC
861 3069, where the individual ports are NOT allowed to
862 communicate with each other, but they are allowed to talk to
863 the upstream router. As described in RFC 3069, it is possible
864 to allow these hosts to communicate through the upstream
865 router by proxy_arp'ing. Don't need to be used together with
866 proxy_arp.
867
868 This technology is known by different names:
869 In RFC 3069 it is called VLAN Aggregation.
870 Cisco and Allied Telesyn call it Private VLAN.
871 Hewlett-Packard call it Source-Port filtering or port-isolation.
872 Ericsson call it MAC-Forced Forwarding (RFC Draft).
873
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874shared_media - BOOLEAN
875 Send(router) or accept(host) RFC1620 shared media redirects.
876 Overrides ip_secure_redirects.
877 shared_media for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
878 conf/{all,interface}/shared_media is set to TRUE,
879 it will be disabled otherwise
880 default TRUE
881
882secure_redirects - BOOLEAN
883 Accept ICMP redirect messages only for gateways,
884 listed in default gateway list.
885 secure_redirects for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
886 conf/{all,interface}/secure_redirects is set to TRUE,
887 it will be disabled otherwise
888 default TRUE
889
890send_redirects - BOOLEAN
891 Send redirects, if router.
892 send_redirects for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
893 conf/{all,interface}/send_redirects is set to TRUE,
894 it will be disabled otherwise
895 Default: TRUE
896
897bootp_relay - BOOLEAN
898 Accept packets with source address 0.b.c.d destined
899 not to this host as local ones. It is supposed, that
900 BOOTP relay daemon will catch and forward such packets.
901 conf/all/bootp_relay must also be set to TRUE to enable BOOTP relay
902 for the interface
903 default FALSE
904 Not Implemented Yet.
905
906accept_source_route - BOOLEAN
907 Accept packets with SRR option.
908 conf/all/accept_source_route must also be set to TRUE to accept packets
909 with SRR option on the interface
910 default TRUE (router)
911 FALSE (host)
912
8153a10c 913accept_local - BOOLEAN
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915 with suitable routing, this can be used to direct packets
916 between two local interfaces over the wire and have them
917 accepted properly.
918
919 rp_filter must be set to a non-zero value in order for
920 accept_local to have an effect.
921
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923
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924route_localnet - BOOLEAN
925 Do not consider loopback addresses as martian source or destination
926 while routing. This enables the use of 127/8 for local routing purposes.
927 default FALSE
928
c1cf8422 929rp_filter - INTEGER
1da177e4 930 0 - No source validation.
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931 1 - Strict mode as defined in RFC3704 Strict Reverse Path
932 Each incoming packet is tested against the FIB and if the interface
933 is not the best reverse path the packet check will fail.
934 By default failed packets are discarded.
935 2 - Loose mode as defined in RFC3704 Loose Reverse Path
936 Each incoming packet's source address is also tested against the FIB
937 and if the source address is not reachable via any interface
938 the packet check will fail.
939
e18f5feb 940 Current recommended practice in RFC3704 is to enable strict mode
bf869c30 941 to prevent IP spoofing from DDos attacks. If using asymmetric routing
e18f5feb 942 or other complicated routing, then loose mode is recommended.
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945 when doing source validation on the {interface}.
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946
947 Default value is 0. Note that some distributions enable it
948 in startup scripts.
949
950arp_filter - BOOLEAN
951 1 - Allows you to have multiple network interfaces on the same
952 subnet, and have the ARPs for each interface be answered
953 based on whether or not the kernel would route a packet from
954 the ARP'd IP out that interface (therefore you must use source
955 based routing for this to work). In other words it allows control
956 of which cards (usually 1) will respond to an arp request.
957
958 0 - (default) The kernel can respond to arp requests with addresses
959 from other interfaces. This may seem wrong but it usually makes
960 sense, because it increases the chance of successful communication.
961 IP addresses are owned by the complete host on Linux, not by
962 particular interfaces. Only for more complex setups like load-
963 balancing, does this behaviour cause problems.
964
965 arp_filter for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
966 conf/{all,interface}/arp_filter is set to TRUE,
967 it will be disabled otherwise
968
969arp_announce - INTEGER
970 Define different restriction levels for announcing the local
971 source IP address from IP packets in ARP requests sent on
972 interface:
973 0 - (default) Use any local address, configured on any interface
974 1 - Try to avoid local addresses that are not in the target's
975 subnet for this interface. This mode is useful when target
976 hosts reachable via this interface require the source IP
977 address in ARP requests to be part of their logical network
978 configured on the receiving interface. When we generate the
979 request we will check all our subnets that include the
980 target IP and will preserve the source address if it is from
981 such subnet. If there is no such subnet we select source
982 address according to the rules for level 2.
983 2 - Always use the best local address for this target.
984 In this mode we ignore the source address in the IP packet
985 and try to select local address that we prefer for talks with
986 the target host. Such local address is selected by looking
987 for primary IP addresses on all our subnets on the outgoing
988 interface that include the target IP address. If no suitable
989 local address is found we select the first local address
990 we have on the outgoing interface or on all other interfaces,
991 with the hope we will receive reply for our request and
992 even sometimes no matter the source IP address we announce.
993
994 The max value from conf/{all,interface}/arp_announce is used.
995
996 Increasing the restriction level gives more chance for
997 receiving answer from the resolved target while decreasing
998 the level announces more valid sender's information.
999
1000arp_ignore - INTEGER
1001 Define different modes for sending replies in response to
1002 received ARP requests that resolve local target IP addresses:
1003 0 - (default): reply for any local target IP address, configured
1004 on any interface
1005 1 - reply only if the target IP address is local address
1006 configured on the incoming interface
1007 2 - reply only if the target IP address is local address
1008 configured on the incoming interface and both with the
1009 sender's IP address are part from same subnet on this interface
1010 3 - do not reply for local addresses configured with scope host,
1011 only resolutions for global and link addresses are replied
1012 4-7 - reserved
1013 8 - do not reply for all local addresses
1014
1015 The max value from conf/{all,interface}/arp_ignore is used
1016 when ARP request is received on the {interface}
1017
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1018arp_notify - BOOLEAN
1019 Define mode for notification of address and device changes.
1020 0 - (default): do nothing
3f8dc236 1021 1 - Generate gratuitous arp requests when device is brought up
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1022 or hardware address changes.
1023
c1b1bce8 1024arp_accept - BOOLEAN
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1025 Define behavior for gratuitous ARP frames who's IP is not
1026 already present in the ARP table:
1027 0 - don't create new entries in the ARP table
1028 1 - create new entries in the ARP table
1029
1030 Both replies and requests type gratuitous arp will trigger the
1031 ARP table to be updated, if this setting is on.
1032
1033 If the ARP table already contains the IP address of the
1034 gratuitous arp frame, the arp table will be updated regardless
1035 if this setting is on or off.
1036
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1038app_solicit - INTEGER
1039 The maximum number of probes to send to the user space ARP daemon
1040 via netlink before dropping back to multicast probes (see
1041 mcast_solicit). Defaults to 0.
1042
1043disable_policy - BOOLEAN
1044 Disable IPSEC policy (SPD) for this interface
1045
1046disable_xfrm - BOOLEAN
1047 Disable IPSEC encryption on this interface, whatever the policy
1048
1049
1050
1051tag - INTEGER
1052 Allows you to write a number, which can be used as required.
1053 Default value is 0.
1054
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1057
1058Updated by:
1059Andi Kleen
1060ak@muc.de
1061Nicolas Delon
1062delon.nicolas@wanadoo.fr
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1064
1065
1066
1067/proc/sys/net/ipv6/* Variables:
1068
1069IPv6 has no global variables such as tcp_*. tcp_* settings under ipv4/ also
1070apply to IPv6 [XXX?].
1071
1072bindv6only - BOOLEAN
1073 Default value for IPV6_V6ONLY socket option,
e18f5feb 1074 which restricts use of the IPv6 socket to IPv6 communication
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1075 only.
1076 TRUE: disable IPv4-mapped address feature
1077 FALSE: enable IPv4-mapped address feature
1078
d5c073ca 1079 Default: FALSE (as specified in RFC3493)
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1080
1081IPv6 Fragmentation:
1082
1083ip6frag_high_thresh - INTEGER
e18f5feb 1084 Maximum memory used to reassemble IPv6 fragments. When
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1085 ip6frag_high_thresh bytes of memory is allocated for this purpose,
1086 the fragment handler will toss packets until ip6frag_low_thresh
1087 is reached.
e18f5feb 1088
1da177e4 1089ip6frag_low_thresh - INTEGER
e18f5feb 1090 See ip6frag_high_thresh
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1091
1092ip6frag_time - INTEGER
1093 Time in seconds to keep an IPv6 fragment in memory.
1094
1095ip6frag_secret_interval - INTEGER
e18f5feb 1096 Regeneration interval (in seconds) of the hash secret (or lifetime
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1098 Default: 600
1099
1100conf/default/*:
1101 Change the interface-specific default settings.
1102
1103
1104conf/all/*:
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1107 [XXX: Other special features than forwarding?]
1108
1109conf/all/forwarding - BOOLEAN
e18f5feb 1110 Enable global IPv6 forwarding between all interfaces.
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1113 to control which interfaces may forward packets and which not.
1114
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1116 'forwarding' to the specified value. See below for details.
1117
1118 This referred to as global forwarding.
1119
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1120proxy_ndp - BOOLEAN
1121 Do proxy ndp.
1122
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1123conf/interface/*:
1124 Change special settings per interface.
1125
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1127 depending on whether local forwarding is enabled or not.
1128
605b91c8 1129accept_ra - INTEGER
1da177e4 1130 Accept Router Advertisements; autoconfigure using them.
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1133 Solicitations. If and only if the functional setting is to
1134 accept Router Advertisements, Router Solicitations will be
1135 transmitted.
1136
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1138 0 Do not accept Router Advertisements.
1139 1 Accept Router Advertisements if forwarding is disabled.
1140 2 Overrule forwarding behaviour. Accept Router Advertisements
1141 even if forwarding is enabled.
1142
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1143 Functional default: enabled if local forwarding is disabled.
1144 disabled if local forwarding is enabled.
1145
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1146accept_ra_defrtr - BOOLEAN
1147 Learn default router in Router Advertisement.
1148
1149 Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
1150 disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
1151
c4fd30eb 1152accept_ra_pinfo - BOOLEAN
2fe0ae78 1153 Learn Prefix Information in Router Advertisement.
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1154
1155 Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
1156 disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
1157
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1158accept_ra_rt_info_max_plen - INTEGER
1159 Maximum prefix length of Route Information in RA.
1160
1161 Route Information w/ prefix larger than or equal to this
1162 variable shall be ignored.
1163
1164 Functional default: 0 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is enabled.
1165 -1 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is disabled.
1166
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1167accept_ra_rtr_pref - BOOLEAN
1168 Accept Router Preference in RA.
1169
1170 Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
1171 disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
1172
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1173accept_redirects - BOOLEAN
1174 Accept Redirects.
1175
1176 Functional default: enabled if local forwarding is disabled.
1177 disabled if local forwarding is enabled.
1178
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1179accept_source_route - INTEGER
1180 Accept source routing (routing extension header).
1181
bb4dbf9e 1182 >= 0: Accept only routing header type 2.
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1183 < 0: Do not accept routing header.
1184
1185 Default: 0
1186
1da177e4 1187autoconf - BOOLEAN
e18f5feb 1188 Autoconfigure addresses using Prefix Information in Router
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1189 Advertisements.
1190
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1191 Functional default: enabled if accept_ra_pinfo is enabled.
1192 disabled if accept_ra_pinfo is disabled.
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1193
1194dad_transmits - INTEGER
1195 The amount of Duplicate Address Detection probes to send.
1196 Default: 1
e18f5feb 1197
605b91c8 1198forwarding - INTEGER
e18f5feb 1199 Configure interface-specific Host/Router behaviour.
1da177e4 1200
e18f5feb 1201 Note: It is recommended to have the same setting on all
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1202 interfaces; mixed router/host scenarios are rather uncommon.
1203
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1204 Possible values are:
1205 0 Forwarding disabled
1206 1 Forwarding enabled
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1207
1208 FALSE (0):
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1209
1210 By default, Host behaviour is assumed. This means:
1211
1212 1. IsRouter flag is not set in Neighbour Advertisements.
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1213 2. If accept_ra is TRUE (default), transmit Router
1214 Solicitations.
e18f5feb 1215 3. If accept_ra is TRUE (default), accept Router
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1216 Advertisements (and do autoconfiguration).
1217 4. If accept_redirects is TRUE (default), accept Redirects.
1218
ae8abfa0 1219 TRUE (1):
1da177e4 1220
e18f5feb 1221 If local forwarding is enabled, Router behaviour is assumed.
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1222 This means exactly the reverse from the above:
1223
1224 1. IsRouter flag is set in Neighbour Advertisements.
026359bc 1225 2. Router Solicitations are not sent unless accept_ra is 2.
ae8abfa0 1226 3. Router Advertisements are ignored unless accept_ra is 2.
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1227 4. Redirects are ignored.
1228
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1229 Default: 0 (disabled) if global forwarding is disabled (default),
1230 otherwise 1 (enabled).
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1231
1232hop_limit - INTEGER
1233 Default Hop Limit to set.
1234 Default: 64
1235
1236mtu - INTEGER
1237 Default Maximum Transfer Unit
1238 Default: 1280 (IPv6 required minimum)
1239
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1240router_probe_interval - INTEGER
1241 Minimum interval (in seconds) between Router Probing described
1242 in RFC4191.
1243
1244 Default: 60
1245
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1246router_solicitation_delay - INTEGER
1247 Number of seconds to wait after interface is brought up
1248 before sending Router Solicitations.
1249 Default: 1
1250
1251router_solicitation_interval - INTEGER
1252 Number of seconds to wait between Router Solicitations.
1253 Default: 4
1254
1255router_solicitations - INTEGER
e18f5feb 1256 Number of Router Solicitations to send until assuming no
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1257 routers are present.
1258 Default: 3
1259
1260use_tempaddr - INTEGER
1261 Preference for Privacy Extensions (RFC3041).
1262 <= 0 : disable Privacy Extensions
1263 == 1 : enable Privacy Extensions, but prefer public
1264 addresses over temporary addresses.
1265 > 1 : enable Privacy Extensions and prefer temporary
1266 addresses over public addresses.
1267 Default: 0 (for most devices)
1268 -1 (for point-to-point devices and loopback devices)
1269
1270temp_valid_lft - INTEGER
1271 valid lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses.
1272 Default: 604800 (7 days)
1273
1274temp_prefered_lft - INTEGER
1275 Preferred lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses.
1276 Default: 86400 (1 day)
1277
1278max_desync_factor - INTEGER
1279 Maximum value for DESYNC_FACTOR, which is a random value
e18f5feb 1280 that ensures that clients don't synchronize with each
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1281 other and generate new addresses at exactly the same time.
1282 value is in seconds.
1283 Default: 600
e18f5feb 1284
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1285regen_max_retry - INTEGER
1286 Number of attempts before give up attempting to generate
1287 valid temporary addresses.
1288 Default: 5
1289
1290max_addresses - INTEGER
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1291 Maximum number of autoconfigured addresses per interface. Setting
1292 to zero disables the limitation. It is not recommended to set this
1293 value too large (or to zero) because it would be an easy way to
1294 crash the kernel by allowing too many addresses to be created.
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1295 Default: 16
1296
778d80be 1297disable_ipv6 - BOOLEAN
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1298 Disable IPv6 operation. If accept_dad is set to 2, this value
1299 will be dynamically set to TRUE if DAD fails for the link-local
1300 address.
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1301 Default: FALSE (enable IPv6 operation)
1302
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1303 When this value is changed from 1 to 0 (IPv6 is being enabled),
1304 it will dynamically create a link-local address on the given
1305 interface and start Duplicate Address Detection, if necessary.
1306
1307 When this value is changed from 0 to 1 (IPv6 is being disabled),
1308 it will dynamically delete all address on the given interface.
1309
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1310accept_dad - INTEGER
1311 Whether to accept DAD (Duplicate Address Detection).
1312 0: Disable DAD
1313 1: Enable DAD (default)
1314 2: Enable DAD, and disable IPv6 operation if MAC-based duplicate
1315 link-local address has been found.
1316
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1317force_tllao - BOOLEAN
1318 Enable sending the target link-layer address option even when
1319 responding to a unicast neighbor solicitation.
1320 Default: FALSE
1321
1322 Quoting from RFC 2461, section 4.4, Target link-layer address:
1323
1324 "The option MUST be included for multicast solicitations in order to
1325 avoid infinite Neighbor Solicitation "recursion" when the peer node
1326 does not have a cache entry to return a Neighbor Advertisements
1327 message. When responding to unicast solicitations, the option can be
1328 omitted since the sender of the solicitation has the correct link-
1329 layer address; otherwise it would not have be able to send the unicast
1330 solicitation in the first place. However, including the link-layer
1331 address in this case adds little overhead and eliminates a potential
1332 race condition where the sender deletes the cached link-layer address
1333 prior to receiving a response to a previous solicitation."
1334
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1335icmp/*:
1336ratelimit - INTEGER
1337 Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMPv6 packets.
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1338 0 to disable any limiting,
1339 otherwise the minimal space between responses in milliseconds.
1340 Default: 1000
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1341
1342
1343IPv6 Update by:
1344Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
1345YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / USAGI Project <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
1346
1347
1348/proc/sys/net/bridge/* Variables:
1349
1350bridge-nf-call-arptables - BOOLEAN
1351 1 : pass bridged ARP traffic to arptables' FORWARD chain.
1352 0 : disable this.
1353 Default: 1
1354
1355bridge-nf-call-iptables - BOOLEAN
1356 1 : pass bridged IPv4 traffic to iptables' chains.
1357 0 : disable this.
1358 Default: 1
1359
1360bridge-nf-call-ip6tables - BOOLEAN
1361 1 : pass bridged IPv6 traffic to ip6tables' chains.
1362 0 : disable this.
1363 Default: 1
1364
1365bridge-nf-filter-vlan-tagged - BOOLEAN
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1366 1 : pass bridged vlan-tagged ARP/IP/IPv6 traffic to {arp,ip,ip6}tables.
1367 0 : disable this.
4981682c 1368 Default: 0
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1369
1370bridge-nf-filter-pppoe-tagged - BOOLEAN
1371 1 : pass bridged pppoe-tagged IP/IPv6 traffic to {ip,ip6}tables.
1da177e4 1372 0 : disable this.
4981682c 1373 Default: 0
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1375bridge-nf-pass-vlan-input-dev - BOOLEAN
1376 1: if bridge-nf-filter-vlan-tagged is enabled, try to find a vlan
1377 interface on the bridge and set the netfilter input device to the vlan.
1378 This allows use of e.g. "iptables -i br0.1" and makes the REDIRECT
1379 target work with vlan-on-top-of-bridge interfaces. When no matching
1380 vlan interface is found, or this switch is off, the input device is
1381 set to the bridge interface.
1382 0: disable bridge netfilter vlan interface lookup.
1383 Default: 0
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1385proc/sys/net/sctp/* Variables:
1386
1387addip_enable - BOOLEAN
1388 Enable or disable extension of Dynamic Address Reconfiguration
1389 (ADD-IP) functionality specified in RFC5061. This extension provides
1390 the ability to dynamically add and remove new addresses for the SCTP
1391 associations.
1392
1393 1: Enable extension.
1394
1395 0: Disable extension.
1396
1397 Default: 0
1398
1399addip_noauth_enable - BOOLEAN
1400 Dynamic Address Reconfiguration (ADD-IP) requires the use of
1401 authentication to protect the operations of adding or removing new
1402 addresses. This requirement is mandated so that unauthorized hosts
1403 would not be able to hijack associations. However, older
1404 implementations may not have implemented this requirement while
1405 allowing the ADD-IP extension. For reasons of interoperability,
1406 we provide this variable to control the enforcement of the
1407 authentication requirement.
1408
1409 1: Allow ADD-IP extension to be used without authentication. This
1410 should only be set in a closed environment for interoperability
1411 with older implementations.
1412
1413 0: Enforce the authentication requirement
1414
1415 Default: 0
1416
1417auth_enable - BOOLEAN
1418 Enable or disable Authenticated Chunks extension. This extension
1419 provides the ability to send and receive authenticated chunks and is
1420 required for secure operation of Dynamic Address Reconfiguration
1421 (ADD-IP) extension.
1422
1423 1: Enable this extension.
1424 0: Disable this extension.
1425
1426 Default: 0
1427
1428prsctp_enable - BOOLEAN
1429 Enable or disable the Partial Reliability extension (RFC3758) which
1430 is used to notify peers that a given DATA should no longer be expected.
1431
1432 1: Enable extension
1433 0: Disable
1434
1435 Default: 1
1436
1437max_burst - INTEGER
1438 The limit of the number of new packets that can be initially sent. It
1439 controls how bursty the generated traffic can be.
1440
1441 Default: 4
1442
1443association_max_retrans - INTEGER
1444 Set the maximum number for retransmissions that an association can
1445 attempt deciding that the remote end is unreachable. If this value
1446 is exceeded, the association is terminated.
1447
1448 Default: 10
1449
1450max_init_retransmits - INTEGER
1451 The maximum number of retransmissions of INIT and COOKIE-ECHO chunks
1452 that an association will attempt before declaring the destination
1453 unreachable and terminating.
1454
1455 Default: 8
1456
1457path_max_retrans - INTEGER
1458 The maximum number of retransmissions that will be attempted on a given
1459 path. Once this threshold is exceeded, the path is considered
1460 unreachable, and new traffic will use a different path when the
1461 association is multihomed.
1462
1463 Default: 5
1464
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1465pf_retrans - INTEGER
1466 The number of retransmissions that will be attempted on a given path
1467 before traffic is redirected to an alternate transport (should one
1468 exist). Note this is distinct from path_max_retrans, as a path that
1469 passes the pf_retrans threshold can still be used. Its only
1470 deprioritized when a transmission path is selected by the stack. This
1471 setting is primarily used to enable fast failover mechanisms without
1472 having to reduce path_max_retrans to a very low value. See:
1473 http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-nishida-tsvwg-sctp-failover-05.txt
1474 for details. Note also that a value of pf_retrans > path_max_retrans
1475 disables this feature
1476
1477 Default: 0
1478
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1479rto_initial - INTEGER
1480 The initial round trip timeout value in milliseconds that will be used
1481 in calculating round trip times. This is the initial time interval
1482 for retransmissions.
1483
1484 Default: 3000
1da177e4 1485
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1486rto_max - INTEGER
1487 The maximum value (in milliseconds) of the round trip timeout. This
1488 is the largest time interval that can elapse between retransmissions.
1489
1490 Default: 60000
1491
1492rto_min - INTEGER
1493 The minimum value (in milliseconds) of the round trip timeout. This
1494 is the smallest time interval the can elapse between retransmissions.
1495
1496 Default: 1000
1497
1498hb_interval - INTEGER
1499 The interval (in milliseconds) between HEARTBEAT chunks. These chunks
1500 are sent at the specified interval on idle paths to probe the state of
1501 a given path between 2 associations.
1502
1503 Default: 30000
1504
1505sack_timeout - INTEGER
1506 The amount of time (in milliseconds) that the implementation will wait
1507 to send a SACK.
1508
1509 Default: 200
1510
1511valid_cookie_life - INTEGER
1512 The default lifetime of the SCTP cookie (in milliseconds). The cookie
1513 is used during association establishment.
1514
1515 Default: 60000
1516
1517cookie_preserve_enable - BOOLEAN
1518 Enable or disable the ability to extend the lifetime of the SCTP cookie
1519 that is used during the establishment phase of SCTP association
1520
1521 1: Enable cookie lifetime extension.
1522 0: Disable
1523
1524 Default: 1
1525
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1526cookie_hmac_alg - STRING
1527 Select the hmac algorithm used when generating the cookie value sent by
1528 a listening sctp socket to a connecting client in the INIT-ACK chunk.
1529 Valid values are:
1530 * md5
1531 * sha1
1532 * none
1533 Ability to assign md5 or sha1 as the selected alg is predicated on the
1534 configuarion of those algorithms at build time (CONFIG_CRYPTO_MD5 and
1535 CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA1).
1536
1537 Default: Dependent on configuration. MD5 if available, else SHA1 if
1538 available, else none.
1539
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1540rcvbuf_policy - INTEGER
1541 Determines if the receive buffer is attributed to the socket or to
1542 association. SCTP supports the capability to create multiple
1543 associations on a single socket. When using this capability, it is
1544 possible that a single stalled association that's buffering a lot
1545 of data may block other associations from delivering their data by
1546 consuming all of the receive buffer space. To work around this,
1547 the rcvbuf_policy could be set to attribute the receiver buffer space
1548 to each association instead of the socket. This prevents the described
1549 blocking.
1550
1551 1: rcvbuf space is per association
1552 0: recbuf space is per socket
1553
1554 Default: 0
1555
1556sndbuf_policy - INTEGER
1557 Similar to rcvbuf_policy above, this applies to send buffer space.
1558
1559 1: Send buffer is tracked per association
1560 0: Send buffer is tracked per socket.
1561
1562 Default: 0
1563
1564sctp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
1565 Number of pages allowed for queueing by all SCTP sockets.
1566
1567 min: Below this number of pages SCTP is not bothered about its
1568 memory appetite. When amount of memory allocated by SCTP exceeds
1569 this number, SCTP starts to moderate memory usage.
1570
1571 pressure: This value was introduced to follow format of tcp_mem.
1572
1573 max: Number of pages allowed for queueing by all SCTP sockets.
1574
1575 Default is calculated at boot time from amount of available memory.
1576
1577sctp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
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1578 Only the first value ("min") is used, "default" and "max" are
1579 ignored.
1580
1581 min: Minimal size of receive buffer used by SCTP socket.
1582 It is guaranteed to each SCTP socket (but not association) even
1583 under moderate memory pressure.
1584
1585 Default: 1 page
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1586
1587sctp_wmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
a6e1204b 1588 Currently this tunable has no effect.
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1590addr_scope_policy - INTEGER
1591 Control IPv4 address scoping - draft-stewart-tsvwg-sctp-ipv4-00
1592
1593 0 - Disable IPv4 address scoping
1594 1 - Enable IPv4 address scoping
1595 2 - Follow draft but allow IPv4 private addresses
1596 3 - Follow draft but allow IPv4 link local addresses
1597
1598 Default: 1
1599
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4edc2f34 1601/proc/sys/net/core/*
c60f6aa8 1602 Please see: Documentation/sysctl/net.txt for descriptions of these entries.
705efc3b 1603
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1604
1605/proc/sys/net/unix/*
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1606max_dgram_qlen - INTEGER
1607 The maximum length of dgram socket receive queue
1608
1609 Default: 10
1610
1611
1612UNDOCUMENTED:
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1613
1614/proc/sys/net/irda/*
1615 fast_poll_increase FIXME
1616 warn_noreply_time FIXME
1617 discovery_slots FIXME
1618 slot_timeout FIXME
1619 max_baud_rate FIXME
1620 discovery_timeout FIXME
1621 lap_keepalive_time FIXME
1622 max_noreply_time FIXME
1623 max_tx_data_size FIXME
1624 max_tx_window FIXME
1625 min_tx_turn_time FIXME